Um, I forgot to mention that we probably shouldn't have EBCDIC
messages on "The Internet" itself. EBCDIC messages would probably be
confined to BITNET or whatever. RFC-XXXX itself might, or might not,
mention EBCDIC, but I think it should be mentioned *somewhere*.
Initially, I thought this would have been fairly obvious and didn't
need mentioning, but I changed my mind, and decided to make this clear
before people like Randall and John point this out.
Very true - no one wants to send mail in EBCDIC on the Internet. But
it should not be forgotten that there are quite a few EBCDIC hosts
directly connected to the Internet. Some of them may be acting as
MX relays for ASCII hosts.
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